>http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/09/18/157236/abandoned-uk-national-health-service-it-system-has-cost-16bn-so-far
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>As the comments day, "Dayum!"

This gives one view of what went wrong: http://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Six-reasons-why-the-NHS-National-Programme-for-IT-failed

And cost still increasing due to contract terminations even though it has been scrapped :-{